"""This guy was in the grass area so it was easy for me to catch ! He is pausing for a measurement and snap shot ! LOL"" - Kenji This photo and observation were made by Ken (Kenji) Yanagida and sent to rascals@nhm.org."
In the Berlengas islands, a nature reserve off Portugal.This subspecies is endemic to these islands, and apart from an insular population of Timon lepidus (which displayed a different behaviour from those from the continent) that seems to have gone extinct, is the only reptile in this small archipelago. These lizards are larger and have darker bellies than those from the mainland.
See photograph. Several (10+) zipping over semi-consolidated sand with a little gravel, between small Artemisia diffusa bushes on loose sand hummocks with very occasional small saxaul Haloxylon persica and scarce grass/herb cover.